Poetry Report: Health Care Website

Poetry
Written By Scott Poole

“Why healthcare.gov doesn’t work.”

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Why healthcare.gov doesn't work.

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Will the Website Work?


Well, The 834 EDI won't parse
with the non-exchange
Medicaid biz talk server
because of a SOAP error
in the WSDL trading partner. Thus
the sustained class kicks
a missing object error,
especially because
there's two way late binding
to the view model
which is an opposite paradigm
to the SOA approach we took
when we hired Katie
three months ago
when we were promised
the DAL wouldn't have
in-line SQL in it.

OK. Good. Let's roll
this sucker out.

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Scott Poole

Scott Poole is the House Poet for Live Wire! Radio, a weekly public radio show taped in Portland, OR and broadcast throughout the country. He is the author of three books of poetry, The Cheap Seats, Hiding from Salesmen and, most recently, The Sliding Glass Door (2011, Colonus Publishing). He was also the founding director of Wordstock, the annual Portland, OR book festival.

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